Common wisdom says: Show, not tell. Usually we only tell you about the
words, but this week we can show you as well. Artist Leah Palmer Preiss
(curiouser at mindspring.com) has illustrated this week's words with
vivid colors and imagination. To see more of her work, check out the week
of words she illustrated for AWAD last year.
Also, don't forget to visit her blog Oddments & Curiosities and her Etsy shop.

His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it. -Lois McMaster Bujold, writer (b. 1949)